@MissConstrue 🧵ChatGPT-5 as reference link fixer #LLM
I asked: “Please give quotes and summary of notes after Agena undocking, including recognition, diagnosis, and recovery from stuck thruster problem. Include direct quotes and for each block of quotes, the debriefing report page number. I want a short narrative using direct quotes including attribution of the astronaut speaking.”
One issue: it used PDF rather than Report page numbers for citations.
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How about this: Microsoft could market an assistant which takes written or spoken direction, and either 1) write something which sounds like an answer, or 2) find snippets which might be relevant, along with a link to the source, so you can look over what it found.
Microsoft could call it ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’. Oh, wait…
@MissConstrue 🧵ChatGPT-5 as reference link fixer #LLM
I agree. I have however been able to easily prompt and poke ChatGPT-5 to review a 13 year old blog post about Neil Armstrong (I gave it a URL) and suggest fixes for any broken links it found iin the post’s reference list. It found the broken links and made helpful suggestions, but I wanted more.
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@MissConstrue 🧵ChatGPT-5 as reference link fixer #LLM
I wanted a series of quotes from Armstrong and Scott about their handing of a dangerous Mar 1966 Gemini VIII spin due to a stuck thruster. In 2017 I found quotes from a NASA Gemini VIII Mission Summary, but mistakenly pasted a URL to an Apollo XI Mission Summary when creating the link. ChatGPT-5 pointed out the discrepancy in its reply, and suggested a link to an alternative 2020 NASA post about the Gemini VIII mission. Good, but…
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@MissConstrue 🧵ChatGPT-5 as reference link fixer #LLM
I wanted direct quotes. By Armstrong and Scott from an original source - their Mission debrief. I know such a report *should* exist, but couldn’t find it online in 2012. I asked for astronaut quotes about the spin incident, attributing each quote by name and page number from the 117 page report. ChatGPT-5 did so (with about 1.5 minutes of ‘thinking’ times logged).
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@MissConstrue 🧵ChatGPT-5 as reference link fixer #LLM
I asked: “Please give quotes and summary of notes after Agena undocking, including recognition, diagnosis, and recovery from stuck thruster problem. Include direct quotes and for each block of quotes, the debriefing report page number. I want a short narrative using direct quotes including attribution of the astronaut speaking.”
One issue: it used PDF rather than Report page numbers for citations.
4/4
